Somerset News

The Department of Environmental Protection cited 72 waste-hauling trucks for operational and safety violations during recent inspections in Westmoreland, Somerset and Allegheny counties.

Sharon S. Clapper was named outstanding Person of the Year at the 69th Somerset County Chamber of commerce dinner held Wednesday at Seven Springs Mountain Resort.

Two people accused of stabbing a man and stealing his truck early Sunday are wanted on arrest warrants.

A good story needs a good idea. And for author Robin Moore, it could always use some good buckskin, too.

A retired minister was recently designated pastor emeritus of two churches he served for more than a quarter century.

Anglers fishing Lower Twin Lake have been picking up a few trout on wax worms, maggots and paste baits.

A 50-year-old man was killed yesterday when his motorcycle struck a deer on Route 31 in Somerset County, state police said.

Three women with a history of volunteerism were honored Friday during the 10th annual "Salute to Women" luncheon held at the Bakersville Volunteer Fire Department hall to benefit the Penn's Woods Council of the Boy Scouts.

Borough police continue to search for the woman who robbed 1st Summit Bank on Thursday.

A Halloween prank was costly for a Somerset woman, whose car sustained $1,500 in damage when someone hit it with a pumpkin, police said.

Police say a homeowner's deer camera captured two men burglarizing his home. They have identified the man on the left and are seeking the identity of the other.

A Somerset County man faces aggravated assault charges after he allegedly punched another man unconscious after an argument over a citizens band radio system while at work, state police said.

Share + Oct 31, 2009 9:23 am US/Eastern SOMERSET, Pa. A western Pennsylvania jury has acquitted a man of homicide but convicted him of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his fiancee.

The prosecutor in Bruce Emerick's murder trial Thursday picked apart the accused killer's statement to police in the death of his fiancee, in which he told the cops, "I tried pulling the gun away.

A fire at a two-car garage on Bridge Street early Wednesday was caused by an electrical problem, said Rockwood Fire Chief Jim Miller.

A neighbor of Jeanine Downing testified Tuesday that she heard her screaming "help," and the murder defendant yelling "I'll shoot you" just minutes before Downing was shot and killed.

A Beaver County man who was accused, but never convicted, in a murder-for-hire plot has died in prison.

Students at Meyersdale Area High School's Elective History class are getting their hands dirty - and loving it.

The borough's municipal authority has hired a professional consulting firm to supervise the Northern Cambria water treatment plant.

Angie Svonavec is seeking a fourth term as Somerset County's prothonotary. Svonavec, a Democrat, has been prothonotary since 1998.